DJ-style EQ "isolator" plugin...

I wonder if anyone can recommend or even point me in the direction of a DJ-style 3-band EQ plugin with killswitches for each band (and ideally one for the entire thing) for Mac.

I have scoured the internet many times and again recently.

The only ones I've found are a couple of old Windows ones (David Ross, I think, and Scuzzphut), the LSS DJ EQ that requires Pluggo to run (though the Runtime is free), and, of course, EQ3 in Ableton Live.

I recently bought Kombinat by Audio Damage both for its multiband distortion capabilities (obviously, as that's what it's made for) but also for its built-in EQ isolator, which does exactly what I want. Except that it colours the sound so much even when the distortions are set to thru and the other controls are all off. Otherwise it would be perfect.


Does anyone have any knowledge of any others?

 

Macs can run vsti now right?

Since the LSS is a vsti, is the only reason you can't use it on a mac due to it requiring the pluggo runtime?

STRATEGY

 

google psp plugins

 

I did, but I didn't see any DJ EQ's with cuts there.

STRATEGY

 

Macs run their own kind of VST. It's not the same as a Windows .dll, it's a Mac .vst.
But that's not the problem anyway. Pluggo Runtime is available for free for both Windows and Mac but that particularly plugin (the LSS DJEQ) just doesn't cut it for me (no pun intended). The "crossover" is just all wrong for what I want. This is also why the Kombinat would be perfect (it has adjustable crossover). If only it was "true bypass"... Also why the David Ross one should, in theory, be good too. If only there was a Mac version...

It feels like I've looked at every developer in the world's EQ plugins...

That includes PSP, though I looked again more closely but still found nothing. Was there one in particular you were referring to?

 

Am I going to have to resort to using Live then?

 

do you own a full version of Reaktor? i think that maybe you do?

let me know if you do and i will upload a Reaktor version of the 3-band EQ with kill-switches.

sowari

 

I do, indeed. And that would be great! Thanks.

I had previously looked for a Reaktor version of such a thing but found nothing.

Much appreciated, thanks.

 

this upload is based on the 3- Band Macro that you should find in the Classic Macro folder - but - it includes kill switches, put in by Keisuke Suko.

i think the actual EQs are made by the same guy who built Razor

anyway, i hope it is okay?

sowari

 

I hope it's okay too!

I'm certainly looking forward to trying it.

Thanks again. You're a star. starwari, that's what they should call you.
(sostari sounds a bit too soft and romantic)

 

URS also do a very good one - I have that and LOVE it although its in the appearance of a rack unit, the kill switches are filters switchable in and out via mouse or maschine dials with very steep filters.

PSP have one also - i know you said they don't but they do, its on one of the classic bundles although its not in the typical DJ format, its more like the URS.

 

So the URS S Mix? And the PSP ConsoleQ?

I didn't say PSP or anyone else didn't. Just that I couldn't for the life of me see one that had such a feature. Even now if it hadn't been pointed out that that's what the "IN" buttons did, I wouldn't have had a clue. Their descriptions don't really seem to mention or make it very clear what they're for. I'm not really up on some of the EQ plugin lingo though.

The URS one requires iLok though anyway, which I neither have or want. And I think buying an entire bundle just for one feature of one of the included plugins is on the ludicrous side. Even if I could afford that for another EQ plugin.

And I have the Reaktor ensemble to try.

Thank you for your recommendations though.

Do they (or the one you have) kill the sound completely when all bands are off?

 

I'm not sure you're one of those people who don't like EQ3 or not, but there are specs for building a nice 3-band out of an EQ8 somewhere on the Live forum. I think they were able to even replicate the kills somehow, but I think they weren't quite 100% kills.

Let us know what else you run across, I'm curious about this too,

STRATEGY

 

No, it's not that I don't like EQ3. I know some say that it colours the sound too much but, for me, it's not enough to care about and I don't think it's a bad colour anyway. Unlike the Kombinat. :/

I just didn't want to have to use Live at all. And especially not just for EQ3.
Seems slight overkill... Though I might be using Live live anyway. Depends on my musical colleague. But anyway, hopefully this Reaktor one will work out. Though I'll still keep my eyes open for such a "standalone" plugin, if you'll excuse the paradox, and keep you posted. I think it was one of your posts on the Ableton forum I ran into actually. Perhaps from pre-EQ3 times.

Oh, and when I did use Live, I believe I tried the EQ8 thing and didn't really take to it.
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P.S. I think NI should make one and create Traktor's 13.

(I think, though I don't know as I've never used it, that you can do this in Traktor anyway)